Species Lymnaea peregra (Müller, 1774)

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Species Lymnaea peregra (Müller, 1774)

Buccinum peregra Müller, O.F. 1774. Vermium Terrestrium et Fluviatilium, seu Animalium Infusorium, Helminthicorum, et Testaceorum, non marinorum, Succincta Historia. Havniae & Lipsiae : Heineck & Faber Vol. 2 xxvi 214 pp. [130].
Type data:
Status unknown, ZMUC presumed lost, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Secondary source:
Hubendick, B. 1951. Recent Lymnaeidae, their variation, morphology, taxonomy, nomenclature and distribution. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 4 3(1): 1-223 [7].
Limnaea hobartonensis Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. On the freshwater shells of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 66-82 [21 Mar. 1876] [71].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Hobart (as Hobarton), TAS.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Boray, J.C. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. The identity of the Australian lymnaeid snail host of Fasciola hepatica L. and its response to environment. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 12: 150-162 [153]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from N. Europe.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.

General References

Berrie, A.D. 1959. Variation in the radula of the freshwater snail Lymnaea peregra (Müller) from northwestern Europe. Arkiv för Zoologi 2 12(27): 391-404 (radula)

Kershaw, R.C. 1991. Snail and Slug Pests of Tasmania. Launceston : Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery 67 pp. [28] (distribution)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Sep-2024	HETEROBRANCHIA	06-Sep-2024	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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